Joe the Plumber: "This country has been great for over 180 years."

[SemiCharmedQuark]

From The Colorado Independent:

This country has been great for over 180 years,” Wurzelbacher said after urging folks to study the Constitution. It wasn’t clear whether something happened in the late 1820s to make the United States great, but other than a few puzzled glances from the crowd, everyone went with it

Asked who might win his support among potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates, Wurzelbacher dismissed Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (”No … no”), before sounding like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin might be his choice.

“Sarah Palin? Maybe,” he said. “She’s a nice lady and I like her. She doesn’t have that gleam of power in her eyes.”

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won some praise from Wurzelbacher, who ultimately said he worried the candidate was giving in to his handlers.

http://coloradoindependent.com/31823/joe-the-plumber-derides-nanny-state-at-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-bash

[Skinner]

1. I can't believe this guy hasn't gone away yet. (nt)

[Flabbergasted]

6. They have nothing else. No leadership at all. nt

[Ikonoklast]

9. Parts of him has.

Mentally, he went hiking years ago and got lost.

[Pirate Smile]

14. "Stupid is as Stupid Does"

to quote Forrest Gump.

[Dr.Phool]

44. Change his job title. "Joe the Dumber".

[marmar]

2. What a complete moron.....

:dunce:

[Botany]

3. "She doesn’t have that gleam of power in her eyes"

neither does she have the gleam of intelligence either.

Go get 'em Joe!

[saltpoint]

32. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[NewJeffCT]

36. He couldn't see the gleam because she was too busy winking

at him... or, maybe he was winking at that strange guy who seemingly got aroused over it and wrote about it in the National Review. (forgot his name...)

[drm604]

4. Why are we even aware that this man exists?

:shrug:

[saltpoint]

39. He was almost certainly a 'plant' by the Republicans to drive a class war

wedge between "elites" supporting Obama and "good ol' God-fearin' hard-workin' folks" who were supposed to flock to McCain on grounds that McCain attracts salt-of-the-earth types like Joe the Plumber.

And wow, did that strategy suck door knobs or what.

Huge fail by the GOP.

[Flabbergasted]

5. LOL..............."she doesn't have that gleam of power in her eyes." Oh no not at all. Naive. nt

[RandomThoughts]

7. Saying your country is great,is not an arguement.

It is avoiding thought on what makes a country great.

[Mist]

8. Sounds like Samuel Not-Plumber is regurgitating again. nt

[WillParkinson]

10. Sarah and Joe in 2012!

When she flushes the country down the toilet, perhaps he can plunge it!

[tridim]

11. Obviously Joe should run on the 2012 Palin ticket

Makes perfect sense in the land of make believe.

[Double T]

12. I like republic-con's choice for historian and presidential candidate endorser.

[scheming daemons]

13. He's right... when you subtract the Hoover, Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1, and Bush 2 years

[Blue_Roses]

15. omg...

I am so sick of this idiot

[chollybocker]

16. ...and our final Freeper League score tonight: Earth, 6,000 years;

America, 180 years; Plunger Joe, 15 minutes.

[elocs]

17. I wonder if the other years of "America, the Not So Great Years" are scattered about

or if they counted at the beginning? I must admit that this guy is doing a good job of parlaying his 15 minutes of fame into months.

[graywarrior]

18. It's really sad when you don't have a clue about your own patheticness

What a dweeb.

[Clio the Leo]

19. Can Fox not send him to do live reports from Tehran or something? NT

[BlooInBloo]

20. I've been a great reader for over six months...

And that's just fucking stupid.

[MADem]

21. Yeah, but before those 180 years, with those fuckers like, oh, Washington, and

Jefferson, and Adams and so forth...why, it was just LOUSY way back then!

Even if he'd said "over two hundred" it would have been fine. The odd selection of 180 suggests that a one-eighty is perhaps what he wants to do. Saying that someone doesn't have that "gleam of power" in their eyes isn't really much of an endorsement.

I don't understand why anyone still listens to this dunce.

[Mike Daniels]

24. Those early years don't count because those Founding Fathers were just a bunch of "elites"

I find the Republican hostility to "elites" pretty humorous as it shows a shocking lack of awareness as to who developed this country's initial principles.

It was the well-to-do, higher educated, cultured class and not Joe Six-pack that put the wheels in motion when it came to putting the revolution into action.

[polmaven]

31. Or maybe he really is

living in the 1950s.

[MADem]

35. Yeah--they're the same idiots who hated the French, too--and without those guys

we'd still be singing "God Save The Queen!"

[TankLV]

41. and they weren't from texASS...that's why!!!

[Ishoutandscream2]

45. I'm sorry, I don't understand

[abbeyco]

22. He fell out of the stupid tree

and hit every damn branch on the way down.

It's just embarrassing that a bunch of dumbasses in my beautiful state give this idiot a voice. I think he was at the politically incorrect thing this past weekend - drinking, cigars and lots of automatic weapons; a tighty-righty shoot 'em up.

[tanyev]

23. Well, there was the Indian Removal Act in 1830.

Is that what finally made us great, Joe?

[saltpoint]

25. Once an opportunistic plumber...

- - -

An opportunistic plumber
Spewed vacuous crap all summer
His party was failin'
They loved Sarah Palin
They just don't make 'em much dumber

- - -

[omega minimo]

43. .

There once was a plumber named Joe
Who thought he'd be rollin' in dough
By shameless pretendin'
And Repug lie sendin'
On a This Is My Life Reality Show.

[saltpoint]

46. LOL! . . . .

:toast:

[zulchzulu]

26. Sam The Scab has always been a big fan of the Antebellum Period in America

Ninepines and sleighing were very popular sports, for which Sam The Scab must be a big fan.

:crazy:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

27. She does that gleam of crazy in her eyes. nt

[Jennicut]

29. Yes, that.

And I dare say she IS power hungry. Obvious to the rest of us.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

30. Well, one would have to be extremely stupid or lying to say that

they didn't notice it during the 08 campaign. In this guy's case I'd say both.

[Starry Messenger]

28. That's hilarious.

I thought the 1820's were pretty quiet, too. Unless he's talking about the Monroe Doctrine.

[Orsino]

33. Hey, what about the other eighty-nine years?

Can't this idiot count to three hundred twenty-three? :rofl:

[WI_DEM]

34. Why does anybody care what this obnoxious twit has to say?

[Occam Bandage]

37. He's right. It was only in 1828 that the Democratic party first emerged by that name. nt

[BR_Parkway]

38. Who's picking up the tab for him? Last I heard he was broke and nearly

unemployed

[JBoy]

40. He belongs on that Celebrity reality show with Sanjaya.

[MiniMe]

42. Wow, I could have sworn that we celebrated the bicentennial 33 years ago

I must be getting old, my memory is going.

[Beacool]

47. Oh Joe, shut up already!!!

Your 15 minutes of fame expired long ago.

x(

[trapper914]

48. I hope he keeps talking!

When he serves as a spokesperson for Palin in 2012, his moronic, bigoted, lunacy will splash onto her...moronic, bigoted, lunacy. Never mind.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

49. Who keeps handing the dumb fuck a live microphone?

I'm betting that whatever building he's in, the janitor is probably more well-informed and intelligent.

Yet this asshat keeps getting press.

[RagAss]

50. Fading as slowly as a bad onion fart on a windless summer night !

[and-justice-for-all]

51. He is such a fucking idiot..nt